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WWW
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Search result diversity for informational queries
Ambiguous queries constitute a significant fraction of search instances and pose real challenges to web search engines. With current approaches the top results for these queries ...
Michael J. Welch, Junghoo Cho, Christopher Olston
DEXA
2009
Springer
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13 years 2 months ago
Analyzing Document Retrievability in Patent Retrieval Settings
Most information retrieval settings, such as web search, are typically precision-oriented, i.e. they focus on retrieving a small number of highly relevant documents. However, in sp...
Shariq Bashir, Andreas Rauber
APWEB
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Suggesting Topic-Based Query Terms as You Type
— Query term suggestion that interactively expands the queries is an indispensable technique to help users formulate high-quality queries and has attracted much attention in the ...
Ju Fan, Hao Wu, Guoliang Li, Lizhu Zhou
SCHOLARPEDIA
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Latent semantic analysis
A new method for automatic indexing and retrieval is described. The approach is to take advantage of implicit higher-order structure in the association of terms with documents (&q...
Thomas K. Landauer, Susan T. Dumais
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Novelty and redundancy detection in adaptive filtering
This paper addresses the problem of extending an adaptive information filtering system to make decisions about the novelty and redundancy of relevant documents. It argues that rel...
Yi Zhang 0001, James P. Callan, Thomas P. Minka
IWC
1998
108views more  IWC 1998»
13 years 4 months ago
How many relevances in information retrieval?
The aim of an information retrieval system is to nd relevant documents, thus relevance is a (if not `the') central concept of information retrieval. Notwithstanding its impor...
Stefano Mizzaro
JBI
2002
105views Bioinformatics» more  JBI 2002»
13 years 4 months ago
Information extraction for enhanced access to disease outbreak reports
Document search is generally based on individual terms in the document. However, for collections within limited domains it is possible to provide more powerful access tools. This ...
Ralph Grishman, Silja Huttunen, Roman Yangarber
CN
1998
69views more  CN 1998»
13 years 4 months ago
An Open Framework for Collaborative Distributed Information Management
The MEMOIR project supports researchers working with a vast quantity of distributed information, by assisting them in finding both relevant documents and researchers with related ...
David De Roure, Wendy Hall, Siegfried Reich, Aggel...
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Relevance judgments between TREC and Non-TREC assessors
This paper investigates the agreement of relevance assessments between official TREC judgments and those generated from an interactive IR experiment. Results show that 63% of docu...
Azzah Al-Maskari, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clough
IAJIT
2008
123views more  IAJIT 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Vectorial Information Structuring for Documents Filtering and Diffusion
: Information retrieval tries to identify relevant documents for an information need. The problems that an IR system should deal with include document indexing (which tries to extr...
Omar Nouali, Abdelghani Krinah